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by etfb 14y ago
At the time that Apple started allowing clones, the common wisdom was that this was the Right Thing. We all knew that the PC platform had only succeeded because IBM opened it up to clones, and the result basically forced them to innovate.
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by etfb 14y ago
Global warming hasn't stopped. Any easy-to-find factual article refutes that particular canard quite easily. Here's one: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-19...
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by etfb 14y ago
Interesting. Is there a similar option for VMWare, or is the format too different?
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by etfb 14y ago
You're not the only one. I like it too. But we're the only two.
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by etfb 14y ago
From The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Adams and Lloyd: Scraptoft, noun: The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it to the other ear. Just so you can comment on this patent with the right vo
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by etfb 14y ago
The bit that made me giggle was the line after that: You should follow me on Twitter here.
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by etfb 14y ago
So hang on... you're telling me there are people who consider themselves geeks who don't use the Lazarus plugin ( http://getlazarus.com/ ) in Firefox? (Or an equivalent, but Lazarus was developed by a friend of mine, so I prefer it.) That
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by etfb 14y ago
The rest of the article is so-so, but the emphasis on avoiding offending one's cow-orkers misses the key point: if employee A is annoyed that employee B is getting more money for doing more and better work, it should be reasonably obvious t
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by etfb 14y ago
Yeah, but unless you use them like paneer (ie in curries) they taste bland and icky. But I'm a blue cheese or vintage hard cheese man myself.
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by etfb 14y ago
That's for sure. By the time you have something halfway edible as cheese, a whole village could have died of starvation. Horrible finicky stuff to make, even with modern refrigeration.
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by etfb 14y ago
Having attempted to make cheese, I can report that it's almost certainly not compatible with hunter-gatherer (ie nomadic) cultures, so the logic seems to support the idea that agriculture came first, then milking, then cheese, and that ther
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by etfb 14y ago
OK, that's a good start, but I hope you're devoting a fair amount of effort to improving your decision algorithm. At the moment, it considers tretz.com to be 60% pronounceable, but llmyw.com, qenis.com and domyh.com to be 100%. I can kind
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by etfb 14y ago
My gods I hate "said to". Headline-writer "English" deserves to be consigned to the same cess pit as Church Latin and segmented memory addressing.
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by etfb 14y ago
Wow - it's now older than most of the people who were commenting on it the last time I went there.
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by etfb 14y ago
I used to believe that before I got a Thinkpad. Now I think: if this is "almost perfect", I'm in trouble.
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by etfb 14y ago
Excellent! Pasting that into my bash_aliases now.
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by etfb 14y ago
A suitably sociopathic individual could probably have a beneficial effect on the bike theft rates in a city by just going around to the places where stolen bikes are sold and beating the sellers mostly to death with a baseball bat. That'd
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by etfb 14y ago
Same reason you still use miles and pounds and degrees Fahrenheit in your measurement system: inertia.
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by etfb 14y ago
This post was second after the one to Mark Zuckerberg when I clicked it, and for a second I thought it meant Bill Gates was doing it. I boggled for a second at the idea of Mr Microsoft being sane about patents, but of course it was my er
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by etfb 14y ago
"Sparrow doesn’t owe you anything. You paid, you got software. They can sell and/or kill it if they want. No right to complain. Sad, true." The callousness of this argument annoys me. Hey there, smug twitterer! The universe doesn't owe y
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by etfb 14y ago
The key is the verb "publish". Putting it in your Dropbox account != publishing it.
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by etfb 14y ago
An author who has the bad taste and poor judgement to publicise concepts like the "Mad Girlfriend Bug" doesn't have the right to legislate good taste and good judgement anywhere, even on a website he runs. It's automatic disqualification,
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by etfb 14y ago
This made me go check the terms and conditions for DropBox, and they're much better. The closest they come is saying you may not "publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that advocate bigotry, religious,
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by etfb 14y ago
A good bit of detective work. This is how you "do" journalism. Compare and contrast with the article about the developers of Flash that basically looked on LinkedIn and Google and called it a wrap.
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by etfb 14y ago
I'm given to understand [1] that cars, or at least buggies and coaches and other things like them, are the reason cloaks got replaced with coats and jackets, to the eternal detriment of cool. If you've ever tried driving anywhere with a fu
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by etfb 14y ago
Agreed, enthusiastically. Reading the original article, I went from knowing nothing at all about Rocketr to hating them on principle in no time at all. So much marketing crap, so little content. PG was right to avoid them.
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by etfb 14y ago
At times I've interrupted such a complaint to clarify: "Is this venting, or a bug report?" Once the person (not always female, but usually) understands the question, it helps a lot, and as a bonus they feel a lot more listened to than t
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by etfb 14y ago
This: http://imgur.com/vOPuq
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by etfb 14y ago
OK, I can see that your worldview differs from mine, but I can't reconcile the last part of your first sentence ("... though it wouldn't be nice to do that") with the rest of your comment. If copyright -- by which I mean the right to copy,
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by etfb 14y ago
Agreed - and I usually don't agree with people who express strong opinions regarding copyright in internet fora. But just because it's not theft doesn't mean it's not wrong. The accusation is hyperbole, not error.

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